William Wordsworth: Two Lyrical Ballads / The Sun Sets On The Code of the West

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[Brighton, UK]: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 19 April 2017

[Brighton, UK]: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 19 April 2017

 

[Brighton, UK]: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 19 April 2017

The Sun Sets On The Code of the West

An awful lot they are

These descendants of Old Hrothgar

I know them, I lived among them as a boy

And I knew their father, Old Edgethrow

As an ageing boy  

Always feared everything foreign  

Devoted to Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, cousin to Scylding kings

In pubs recited Roman history while affecting mechanical nazi salute

Tubercular, the Scylding king's weakling sons

The Code of the West was so much bloody nonsense

All it ever was was Old Hrothgar talking your ear off

Trying to bum five bucks steal your wife or girlfriend

It never believed a word it said

This was its innocence

Behind its silken sad uncertain rustling curtains you heard it

The music, still and notwithstanding

The hibbing of those vipern lorke that quann

You'd never want to dream of having a drink with it

 

 
Tongue. New York.: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 24 October 2015

 Tongue. New York.: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 24 October 2015

 
Tongue. New York.: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 24 October 2015

 

  2017-04-20_08-2033 [Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017

 

  2017-04-20_08-2033 [Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017

 

  2017-04-20_08-2033 [Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017

 

[Untitled]: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattananont, 18 April 2017

 

[Untitled]: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattananont, 18 April 2017

 

[Untitled]: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattananont, 18 April 2017

 

[Untitled]: photo by Danielle Houghton, 21 April 2017

 

 William Wordsworth: Two Lyrical Ballads ("A slumber did my spirit seal" / "She dwelt among th' untrodden ways")

Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) with cub: photo by Dave Pape, 2008

A slumber did my spirit seal,
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force
She neither hears nor sees
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees!

 

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): A slumber did my spirit seal, from Lyrical Ballads, 1800

Semi-wild fell ponies, West Fell, 3km from Nether Row, Cumbria: photo by Chris Eilbeck, 4 November 2007

 

She dwelt among th' untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love.

Semi-wild fell ponies: photo by Roy Wall, 8 May 2005

A Violet by a mossy stone

Half-hidden from the eye!

-- Fair, as a star when only one

Is shining in the sky!

A herd of ponies near Roundhouse near to Mosedale, Cumbria: photo by Helen Wilkinson, 13 November 2007

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her Grave, and, Oh!
The difference to me!
 

Ford and ponies, Hay Gill: photo by Bob Jenkins, 21 December 2005

 

 

Fell ponies roaming free over the commons near Mungrisdale and Caldbeck: photo by Ann Hodgson, 13 August 2003

 

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "She dwelt among th' untrodden ways", 1799, from Lyrical Ballads, 1800

"She dwelt among th' untrodden ways"

 

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